"First edition."
Topics: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans, African Americans, African Americans
Topics: URSS. Politique générale (sur plusieurs périodes), URSS. Opinions étrangères. Américaines
[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover
Topics: Igbo (African people), British, Men, Race relations
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3,171
3.2K
1965
1965
by
Licklider, J. C. R; Council on Library Resources; Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, inc., Cambridge, Mass
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Based on a study sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, inc., and conducted by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, inc., between Nov. 1961 and Nov. 1963
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Topics: Information technology, Library science, Information technology
Translation of: La casa de los espíritus
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Topics: Authors, Chilean, Chilean literature, Spanish American literature, Women authors, Chilean
When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn't until eleven years later that Wendy finds out her mother might've been telling the truth. With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed - and it's one she's not sure if she wants to be a part of.
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Topics: English language, Vocabulary, Picture dictionaries, English
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Topics: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Misogyny -- Fiction, Women -- Fiction
Topics: Composers, Compositeurs, Komponist, Biographie
Topics: French language, English language
Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967
Topics: Color, Animals, Rhyme, Color, Animals, Stories in rhyme
Torn - the second book of the Trylle Trilogy... Wendy thought she finally understood who she was and what she wanted, but everything changes when the rival Vittra come after her. She's caught between two worlds, torn between love and duty, and she must decide what life she is going to lead.
Includes "References."
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Topic: Electric circuits
Topics: Picture books, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Reading
"Kohl's cares for kids. 100% of the net profits from the sale of this book will be donated to support health and educational opportunities for children in the communities we serve."--p. [4] Cover
Topics: Individuality, Sheep, Butterflies
"First Scholastic printing, Feb. 1993"--P. [32]
Describes, using rhyming text, how various sea animals change color to blend in with their surroundings
Topics: Marine animals, Camouflage (Biology), Camouflage (Biology), Marine animals
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Topic: Mitologija
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1,230
1.2K
1958
1958
by
Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952; Charlip, Remy, ill; Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990, donor. DLC
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When they find a dead bird, a group of children bury it in the woods, sing a song to it, and put flowers on the grave
Topics: Death, Death
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Topic: Strength of materials
"A Fireside book."
Topic: Success
Includes index
Topics: Accounting, Accounting
Topics: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, Authors, American
First ed. published in 1942 under title: How to write a play
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Topic: Drama
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--back cover
Topics: Hedgehogs, Picture books
Topics: Marriage, Interpersonal relations
Phil and Lillian suffer a fatal case of food poisoning, but they come to in the grey area of life after death. As they try to figure out what comes next and how to get there, they come across gatekeepers and housekeepers, ghosts and magicians, guardians and mercenaries, and quickly realise that they have to sort out the good guys from the bad if they are to find closure to their surreal experience.
Topics: Master Publishing, Death, Mystery, FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS
The final chapter in the Trylle Trilogy With a war looming on the horizon, Wendys fate seems sealed. But everything she sacrificed might be in vain if she cant save the ones she loves. Her whole life has been leading up to this, and its all coming to an end.
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image-world -- A brief anthology of quotations
Topic: Photography, Artistic
"[CD companion includes]: key terms matching exercices, interactive algorithm exercices, answers to the Quick Check questions in the text, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions and answers, glossary of terms related to pathophysiology" --p. [iv]
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Topics: Physiology, Pathological, Nurses, Pathology, Disease, Physiology, Pathophysiologie Pathologie...
Bibliography: p. [685]-710
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Topics: Human evolution, Prehistoric peoples, Race, Anthropology, Ethnology, Evolution, Homme,...
cloth, 424 p.
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Topics: Popular Music, Punk, Oral HIstory, Interviews, New York City, USA, America, United States, Lower...
Part one: Introductory techniques. I. The key problem: capturing the attention -- II. The appeal to wants -- III. The problem of vividness -- IV. The psychology of effective speaking -- V. The psychology of effective writing -- VI. Crossing the interest dead-line -- VII. Making ideas stick
Topics: Psychology, Applied, Gedrag, Interpersoonlijke beïnvloeding
Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations
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Topics: Drawing, Orange (Color) in art, Drawing
A man called Peter, by C. Marshall.--The sea around us, by R.L. Carson.--The crime of the century, by J.E. Hoover.--Cheaper by the dozen, by F.B. Gilbreth, Jr., and E.G. Carey.--The will to live, by A.A. Hutschnecker.--Yankee from Olympus, by C.D. Bowen.--Step right up! By D. Mannix.--Wind, sand and stars, by A. de Saint Exupéry.--Little Britches, by R. Moody.--I leap over the wall, by M. Baldwin.--Life of an American workman, by W.P. Chrysler.--Kon-Tiki, by T. Heyerdahl.--The long, long...
Topics: Literature, Modern, American literature
Selections from Xi you ji, a novel sometimes attributed to Wu Cheng'en
Topic: Xuanzang, ca. 596-664
"...including 450 solved problems..."
Topics: Hydraulics, Fluid mechanics, MECANICA DE FLUIDOS, HIDRAULICA
Make your users fall in love with your site via the precepts packed into this brief, charming book by MailChimp user experience design lead Aarron Walter. From classic psychology to case studies, highbrow concepts to common sense, Designing for Emotion demonstrates accessible strategies and memorable methods to help you make a human connection through design.
Topics: A Book Apart, Aarron Walter, web design, Web sites, Benutzerfreundlichkeit, Gestaltung, Web-Seite
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724
724
1932
1932
by
Abraham ben Simeon, of Worms, 15th cent; Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (Samuel Liddell MacGregor), 1854-1918; De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), b. 1868
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Second printing
Topic: Magic
Topics: Seconde guerre mondiale. Afrique du Nord, Seconde guerre mondiale. Pacifique
A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant
Topic: French literature
Includes index
Topics: English language, Vocabulary
One hundred and one experiments that answer student's questions concerning basic scientific concepts
Topics: Science, Science, Experiments
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698
698
1940
1940
by
The Scientific Research Fund of 1919; Shetelig, Haakon, 1877-; Videnskapelige forskningsfond av 1919
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Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Northmen, Vikings, Northmen, Vikings
Source: bplill
Topics: Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944, World War, 1939-1945, Politiek, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
Includes bibliographical references
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Topic: Philosophy
"Originally published as The Raymond Chandler omnibus"--T.p. verso
Topics: Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, American
A novel of Israel
Topics: Exodus 1947 (Ship), Jews, Holocaust survivors, Jewish refugees, Juifs
Topics: Bible, Christian life, Conduct of life
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-266) and index
Topic: Arthritis
Published by arrangement with Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Topics: Teacher-student relationships, Friendship, Schools, Contests, People with disabilities,...
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661
661
1976
1976
by
National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation; National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Renewable Energy Resources; United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Science and Technology; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Board on Science and Technology for International Development
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"Prepared by the Panel on Renewable Energy Resources of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on International Relations, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, for the Office of Science and Technology, Bureau for Technical Assistance, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., under Contract AID/csd-2584, Task Order no. 1"--T.p. verso
Topics: Power resources, Agriculture, Solar energy, Rural development, Energievoorziening,...
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Topics: Geology, Economic. [from old catalog], Geology, Structural. [from old catalog], Mines and mineral...
Title from cover
Topic: Bible
Topics: Mathematics, Mathematics, Matemáticas, Matemáticas, Mathématiques, Mathématiques
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644
644
1934
1934
by
Shepard, Mary, 1909-; Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996; Gerald Howe (Firm)
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Cover title
Topics: Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996, Shepard, Mary, 1909-, Children's stories, Children's...
Topic: Electric machinery
Bibliografija: str. 433-436
Topic: strojnistvo mehanika nihanje ucbenik za visje in visoke sole
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Natural history -- Superior, Lake, Superior, Lake
Includes the author's Beach, Beecher, Curtis, Dillon, Holt, Mix, Anthony, Ballard, Brown, Cottingham, Holbrook, Niles, Pendleton, Potter, Sandys, Sheldon, Sprague and Tefft ancestry
Topic: Dillon family
Source: bplsocsci
In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the...
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Topics: African American men, Death row inmates, Race relations, Friendship, Roman américain
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602
602
1937
1937
by
Timoshenko, Stephen, 1878-1972; Young, D. H. (Donovan Harold), 1904- joint author
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Includes problems with answers
Topic: Dynamics
Translation of: Kunst der Farbe
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Topics: Color, Painting, Aesthetics
Source: folio
First ed. published in 1895 under title: The Mechanical engineer's pocket-book
Topic: Mechanical engineering
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky
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Topics: Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories, Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories
Running title: Mathematics made simple
Topic: Mathematics
A Junior Library Guild selection
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Topics: Middle schools, Schools, Families, Diaries, Middle schools, Schools, Family life, Diaries, Humorous...
Brief text in rhyme and pictures introduce adjectives and their uses
Topics: English language, English language
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran
Topics: Plague, Plague